Michael Turley wrote:
On 9/16/05, Phil Boswell
<phil.boswell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
ISRTBC HTH HAND
ISRTBC?
WTF?
In sanktam regem tenet benedictus claudandus? No, seriously, I have no
idea. I wish people would stop using such acronyms at all. I notice that
Wikipedia articles are often full of them. Somewhere in the middle of an
article the non-American reader is suddenly expected to know what the
ACLU is (often much more obscure ones, this is just one that came to
mind). It's really frustrating, especially when there is also no
article, redirect or disambiguation page under that acronym.
Searching for ISRTBC, Google asks if I may have meant "ISRC", while
dictionary.com suggests "ASARABACCA"...
I got one meaningful result for ISRTBC, and it's by Phil Boswell on
[[Wikipedia talk:MediaWiki namespace text/Archive 1]]. I'm seriously
starting to wonder if this is some secret shorthand for "YHBT YHL" or
similar.
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